Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cuts, according to some estimates, will trim $1.1 billion from Britain's $38.6 billion defense budget. There is no dearth of ideas on how best to spend the windfall: suggestions range from funding Britain's flagging social services to protecting the environment. But, warns David Greenwood, director of the Center for Defense Studies at the University of Aberdeen, "it's not a political gold mine for the Health Minister or the Transport Minister to put his hand in now." Inflation and modernization programs could gobble up most of the money before a single pound gets spent...
...already lie within the human body. Last week, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that injections of a naturally occurring substance called human growth hormone can firm up skin, build muscles and trim fat in elderly men, . making their bodies look up to 20 years younger. While there is no evidence that the treatment can enable people to live longer, it may one day help many of the aged appear and feel more robust...
Added amounts of growth hormone can smooth skin, build muscles and trim fat, making elderly men's bodies look 20 years younger. But the treatment is not a cure-all for aging...
...voters. "I understand that money is needed," says television producer Thomas C. Guy Jr. of Newark. "But I'm reluctant without a guarantee that those taxes will translate into something tangible." The Governor has given himself a year to prove the doubters wrong. He has already begun efforts to trim the state payroll and bring spending further under control. Almost 1,500 government jobs (of a total 71,000) have been eliminated in all areas except corrections and human services. Floriocrats are also cutting back such perks as state cars and credit cards. Improvement in New Jersey's poorest school...
...under negotiation by 40 nations. They also cleared away the biggest obstacle to a strategic arms-reduction treaty: how to cut air- and sea-launched cruise missiles. Settling on the complicated formulas to regulate these elusive, nuclear-tipped weapons opens the way to a sweeping treaty that will trim overall long-range nuclear arsenals 30% to 35%. But Baker and Shevardnadze could not bridge their differences on how to reduce conventional troops and tanks in Europe. Baker said the U.S. had offered a "new" approach, but "our counterparts were unable to respond at this time." Still, it is likely that...